abrams he was brought back to the movie basically to pick up the pieces left by director ryan johnson who did the last movie that so many people were disappointed in this movie is under a lot of pressure to wrap up the story and it manages to do that even if sometimes it feels like it's 2 movies squeezed into one now this question about ray and her bloodline of course is central the force is very strong with her why it was kind of an echo of that classic star wars your father kind of moment it turns out that ray much like her love interest turned enemy kyler ran has some family issues but we already know that it's coming out very much at the beginning of the movie when layo tells her never be afraid of who you are now as for luke skywalker the actor mark hamill is in the movie as well does that mean he saw a lot of you're not going to tell me really boil or what we saw in the report for instance that they've even resuscitate it and incorporated old footage of the late carrie fisher princess leia what does that work how i found her really uncanny you know they they took this footage of

job here i think coming back because people a lot of people were not happy with the last film by ryan johnson. as you mentioned many were disappointed by the last film also because less so many questions unanswered about the fate of luke skywalker about ray. i mean are we going to get any answers here in this one but i'm going to try not to give them away but yet you are they're going to be answers this film really does have a lot of work to do to wrap up all of those unanswered questions and actually the whole saga the big question one of the big questions of course is about ray she is this orphan jed in the making and star wars is all about bloodlines right so why is the force so strong with her how is she how is she going to face. ren well you know it turns out and who knows from the very beginning don't be afraid of who you are so this is a big topic for the film and she does it turns out have a lot more in common with him and we think she will i'm not going to not going to let you know what it almost no support most of you what you think of all right ok now in this movie they used some s

just fantastic writing from ryan johnson. >> and -- and good for ryan johnson with everything that's favorite movie of the year. >> yes. >> "the biggest little farm." why? >> yes. this is also my favorite documentary of the year. it's about a couple who leave their jobs in the big city to build a farm. and what starts out as this day to day of how do you actually build a farp, they didn't know what they were doing. it turns into a super powerful film about, you know, the family we make, the family we lose, the dreams we chase, the risks we take. it's got cute animals and ugly animals. it's about the relationship they have with each other. it's about life and sustaining life. >> we could keep going for a long time. but we can't. we have to take a break. we'll be right back. >>> jeff bridges has always been passionate about taking pictures. when did your love of -- what did it come from? >> i guess borrowing would be the kinder word rather than stealing. my father's nikon, setting up a dark room in the bathroom, putting tin foil on the windows. and being in there with the red light wit

ryan seacrest or jimmy kimmel. >> answer when we come back. ♪ sc johnson. >>> . >>> tomorrow on "e.t." >> drum roll please. >> whatw about your favorite holiday movie. >> plus, throwbacks to the set of home alone and elf. >> son of a nutcracker. >> tomorrow on "e.t." >> in our "e.t." birthdays was was the starting offensive lineman on his high school football team. >> ryan seacrest. >> fact check that, please. >> don't believe it. >> he turns 45 today. and he tells us how much being the "e.t." birthday. >> i always watched as a kid dreaming one day i'd be on it. >> dreams do come true. he has had many come true. he appeared on the show a lot. spent many christmass with him and of course american idol back in 2003. check it out as we say good night. >> take care, everybody. ♪ oh holy night ♪ the stars are brightly shining sneeps. >> favorite thing about christmas is the music. >> kelly clarkson was a fresh faced 21-year-old when she joined clay aiken and ryan for the holiday special. >> how about that. >> perfect. >> all right. i like this one for me. >> kelly was the first to win the idol title in 2002. so how muc

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prime minister boris johnson, facing a bruising reelection fight, hosted leaders at downing street, aleast three of whom did not go gently into that good night. >> woodruf and ryan chilcote joins me now. ryan, how unusual was it for president trump to criticizees ent macron as he did? >> i think it's pretty unusual in any circumstances, and particularly in this case, because afer all, you would kind of expect president trump to calnato braindead. he's been calling the alliancey obsolete for mears. what president macron really meant when he gave that interview a month ago and made that comment about nato being braindead is that european countries need to do more in that eurn nato countries and can't necessarily rely on the united stas to come to thei defense. well, even today president trutp ted that last point that t nato countries weren't paying their fair sharehe u.s. might not come to their defense, andhe as always said that nato countries, european nat countries should be spending more. i think that was surprising. >> woodruff: and you know, ryan, you obviously have covered a number of nato meetings over the years. how is this one different? >> look, this is

ireland for more let's speak to john ryan he's an expert on europe at the london school of economics thanks for being with us so do you think this is a victory for boris johnson in this way is likely to speed. break up of the of the u.k. . yes i think it would too because i think that. we're going to be moving towards a very difficult negotiation team period where i feel that maybe they will come back to the mantra of. no deal breaks it is better than a bad deal and if we go to say i know that i think northern ireland and scotland were being question and there would be demands for a vote of poland in northern ireland there would be definitely as there is that today a demand for referendum in scotland for independence and aside from the issues like like independence what one former civil servant has warned that. the thing's a definition when you deal with things like subsidies for agriculture and and so on if after brics it if these things are decided in the various places like in northern ireland scotland and england you could have divisions that nit pick from one farmer in one part of the union up against another farmer in a different meaning is that is that